Five Developed Cylinder Reticulated Shell ANSYS Parametric Modelings

Based on the geometric characteristics of developed cylinder shell, five methods of node generation and element connection were proposed in the cylindrical coordinate system. The corresponding macro programmers were made by means of ANSYS software parametric design language. Five developed cylindrical shell parametric modelings were achieved under the conditions of the given shell types, span, vector height, length, the grid number of length wise direction and cross wise direction. Applied examples show that this parametric modeling method and programmers are simple, efficient and useful, which facilitate the force analysis and optimizing design under different types and parameter by means of ANSYS software.